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Cyril Scott’s orchestral style offers decadence without danger. For some listeners that may sound like the equivalent of sex with an inflatable doll, but if
There’s so much junky 19th-century violin music that you have to particularly dread a work subtitled “Concerto dramatique”. After all, sonata-form is inherently dramatic if
Both of these concertos were written in the first decade of the last century for Lionel Tertis, the great British violist, and both are quite
Here are two more Romantic violin concertos from Hyperion, and pretty ones too. The Coleridge-Taylor was nicely done last year (2004) on Avie, with a
Anyone familiar with Moszkowski’s marginally familiar piano concerto knows to expect finely crafted, tuneful, and really attractive music, and that’s just what we get here.
It’s about time! Cyril Scott remains one of the undiscovered treasures of the English musical renaissance, a composer of talent with a distinctive style, though
Eugen d’Albert’s overture to Esther is so tame as to be almost comical. Of dramatic tension there’s not a shred, nor are its tunes in
We seem to be in the midst of a mini-Hubay revival–not that there’s anything wrong with that! This new disc comes into competition with Hungaroton’s
This splendid second volume pairing works by Anglo-Australian composers Edgar Bainton and Hubert Clifford restores some very distinguished and charming music to the catalog. Bainton’s
Both Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) and Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885) composed but a single piano concerto, which is surprising because both were evidently quite good at it.
